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          <h1>The OpenSymphony projects</h1>
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    <h3>Project Info</h3>
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      OpenSymphony is an Open Source project dedicated to providing enterprise class J2EE
      applications and components. Our components aim to be specification compliant, and
      should work in any J2EE compliant application server. (Although some components only
      require a servlet container rather than a full J2EE app server).
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    <h3>Contents</h3>
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	<dd><a href="#download">Download and Installation</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#building">Building From Source</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#support">Support</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#participate">Participation</a></dd>
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    <h3>Download and Installation</h3>
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      To download and install, go to the project page of the project
      you're interested in, and view the files available for download.
      Follow these simple steps:
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        <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html">Download, install and start J2EE 1.4 SDK</a> or any other <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/compatibility.html">J2EE compatible application server</a>.</li>
        <li>Download the latest build of the project you're interested in from the Files Section</a>.</li>
        <li>For applications that provide an example war or ear, deploy the example using your application server's deployment tool.</li>
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    <h3>Build Instructions</h3>
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    Please review the build instructions for individuals projects, if available. Generally though, these steps should work:
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        Download and install <code>ant</code> 1.5.1 or greater from
        <a href="http://ant.apache.org" target="_blank">
        http://ant.apache.org/</a>, or use the command <code>asant</code>
        provided with the J2EE 1.4 SDK.
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        Check out the project's source code from java.net.  You
        can find instructions for doing so here in the 'version control' section of the project.
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        Run '<code>ant</code>'.  A <code>dist</code> directory will be
        created with a jar file for the project.
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    <h3>Support</h3>
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      OpenSymphony is a community-supported open-source collection of projects.
      You can find support by subscribing to the various
      mailing lists offered in each individual sub-project..
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    <h3>Participation</h3>
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     If you are interested in contributing to any of the projects, whether
     it be with new features, suggestions, bugfixes, or documentation, then
     the best approach is to file issues and patches if applicable to
     the project's <a href="http://jira.opensymphony.com"/>issue tracker</a>
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    <i>Part of the <a href="http://java-enterprise.dev.java.net/">
    Java Enterprise Community</a>.</i></small>
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